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ELLINWOOD - Ellinwood Area Health Foundation received autographed sheetmetal from Jeff Gordons 2011 NASCAR and his crew chief shirt to auction off at the upcoming "Giving is Receiving" fundraising event on April 28.

The Great Bend Convention and Visitor's Bureau has released a new Visitor Guide for Great Bend, Ellinwood and Hoisington featuring historic, recreation and business sites from throughout the area. It includes colorful photos of creatures great and small, and people of the area.

HOISINGTON - The Hoisington City Council accepted by consensus a hazard mitigation grant to digitize mapping of the electric utility as a part of its regular meeting last week. The mapping project will cost $17,380.35 of which the grant from FEMA pays 70 percent. The city will pick up the remaining cost.

ELLINWOOD - In a short city council meeting last Tuesday, City Administrator Robert Peter reported that Emergency Medical Services received a grant to purchase a second defibrillator. The grant will pay around $26,577 and the city will pay the remainder of $8,858.

Approximately 104 calls for service and 154 Officer initiated calls were received for the month of March. Officers responded to 19 medical/fire calls and worked two non-injury accidents. Thirteen arrests were made and 19 criminal summonses were served in the month of March.

This edition of Marsh Musings is different from all previous editions. A couple of major changes have occurred. Eric Giesing, my cohort in this endeavor, has taken another job. He is going to work for a promote their pharmaceutical company. He is thrilled at the opportunity, and sad to leave KWEC. I will miss his wisdom and knowledge as an exceptional advocate for KWEC, but look forward to our new adventures and the stories to come. We also hope all of this house keeping is of some interest-- we want you the reader to know that we are grateful when ...

ELLINWOOD - The Ellinwood Chamber of Commerce is holding a T-shirt design contest for the After Harvest Festival. The design must be associated with this year's theme, Celebrate Ellinwood-140 years from 1872-2012.

ELLINWOOD - The Ellinwood High School's Mystic Blues will rock at 7 p.m. Saturday to the retro tunes of American Bandstand in the auditorium. Homemade desserts will follow at the annual after dinner theater.

HOISINGTON -D.E.A.R. Day is April 12. The acronym stands for Drop Everything And Read. The Hoisington Middle School KAYs will be sponsoring a book fair at the Hoisington Activity Center, 1200 Susank Rd., to celebrate the day. The public is invited to come see the display and purchase books and novelties on April 12 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and from 3:30 to 8 p.m. on April 13. There will be books for all ages as well as posters, pencils, erasers, bookmarks and other fun stuff! The proceeds of the fair will ...